Our February meeting was a huge success ! Thankyou to all those that attended, On top of adding generously gifted donations to our “FEED A HORSE-FILL A HEART” Fund we also added TWO new members !!! Welcome to Lane and Vernie, we are THRILLED to have you on board !! Your knowledge and talents are a [...]

We will holding our first public meeting on January 24th, 2012 at 6:30 pm at 32211 Hwy 200 (Squeekys Uhaul in Kootenai, 2 miles east of Sandpoint on Hwy 200) if you are interested in attending or need help finding us please let us know ! Call (208)290-6702 Even if you are not an avid horse [...]

Fun Facts about Horses There are about 75 million horses in the world. Horses’ hooves grow approximately 0.25 in a month, and take nearly a year to grow from the coronet band to the ground. In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for cowboys to walk through a hotel lobby wearing their spurs [...]

Each year, tens of thousands of American horses—riding horses, carriage horses, race horses, wild horses, and children’s ponies—are inhumanely transported and slaughtered, their meat shipped to places like France, Italy, and Japan for human consumption. Help us end horse slaughter. - Humane Society-

Obama Lifts Ban On Horse Slaughter December 1, 2011 Alisa Manzelli (HORSE SLAUGHTER) An ethical conundrum: Despite the fact that 70 percent of Americans oppose horse slaughter, a five-year ban on U.S. slaughterhouses has been lifted. As the country’s number of neglected and abandoned horses continues to rise, there is a disturbing prevalence of U.S. [...]

We will holding our first meeting on January 24th, 2012 at 6:30 pm at 32211 Hwy 200 (Squeekys Uhaul in Kootenia, 2 miles east of Sandpoint on Hwy 200, if you are interested in attending or need help finding us please let us know !

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Farm Tours of Survivors Rescue and Pend Oreille Farms (www.pofarms.com) are available by appointment and donations are appreciated in support of our cause, come hear the story behind the horses and the history of how we changed a Kill Pen Facility into a Horse Rescue, a success story of its own !

Todays pressing Issues

Is it possible to conduct commercial horse slaughter in a humane manner?
No. Horse slaughter, whether in U.S. or foreign plants, was never and cannot be humane due to the nature of the industry and the unique biology of horses. Slaughter is a brutal and terrifying end for horses and is not humane. Horses are shipped for more than 24 hours at a time without food, water, or rest in crowded trucks in which the animals are often seriously injured or killed in transit. Horses are skittish by nature due to their heightened fight or flight response, which makes accurate stunning difficult. As a result, horses often endure repeated blows and sometimes remain conscious during dismemberment; this is rarely a quick, painless death. Before the last domestic plant closed in 2007, the USDA documented in the slaughter pipeline rampant cruelty violations and severe injuries to horses, including broken bones protruding from their bodies, eyeballs hanging by a thread of skin, and gaping open wounds. Additionally, border pen inspections conducted from 2010–2012 show further proof of the cruelty and lack of oversight that exists throughout every step of the slaughter process. The USDA documented dead horses and severe injuries to horses in border pens, including broken legs, head trauma, and eye lacerations. The answer is not to return to subjecting our horses to abuse and unacceptable conditions at plants in the U.S., but to ban horse slaughter and the export of horses for slaughter altogether and provide our horses with a decent life and, when necessary, a humane death.
From The Humane Society of the United States